Three days after giving birth to her son, Anthony, Tanya Lydon was still in the hospital. She thought the lengthy stay was a little odd, but at the same time, the doctor gave no indication that anything was wrong, so she tried not to worry.
Her suspicions intensified after a nurse brought an electrocardiogram machine into the room. The device was going to measure the electrical activity of Anthony’s heart.
The machine was facing Tanya, who had gone to school to learn how to be an EKG technician.
“I’m looking at it and I said, ‘God, that doesn’t look right,’” Tanya recalled. “But I never did an EKG on an infant. I always did one on an adult, so I didn’t think anything of it.”…